General Physics

15.``On Certain Questions of the Theory of Gases," L. Boltzmann, Nature 51, 413-415 (1895). A semi-popular article explaining many of his views on this subject. (E)

The following two articles provide point and counterpoint regarding physical interpretation of Shannon's entropy.

16.``Physical Entropy and Information. II," L. Brillouin, J. Appl. Phys. 22, 338-343 (1951). (I)

17.``Entropy, Information and Szilard's Paradox," J.M. Jauch and J.G. Báron, Helv. Phys. Acta 45, 220-232 (1972). (I)

The next four items provide rather complete coverage of the Maxwell demon issues.

18.Theory of Heat, J.C. Maxwell (Longmans Green, London, 1871). (I)

19.``Über die Entropieverminderung in einem thermodynamischen System bei Eingriffen intelligenter Wesen," L. Szilard, Z. Phys. 53, 840-856 (1929). Translated as ``On the Decrease of Entropy in a Thermodynamic System by the Intervention of Intelligent Beings," A. Rapoport and M. Knoller, Behav. Sci. 9, 301-310 (1964). (I)

20.``Maxwell's Demon Cannot Operate: Information and Entropy. I," L. Brillouin, J. Appl. Phys. 22, 334-347 (1951).

21.Maxwell's Demon: Entropy, Information, Computing, edited by H.S. Leff and A.F. Rex (Princeton University Press, Princeton, and Adam Hilger, Bristol,1990). Contains a very thorough survey of the literature on Maxwell's demon. (I)

These four entries discuss a number of issues concerning the relations between information and physics as they developed from Shannon's work.

22.Considerations sur la theorie de la transmission de l'information et sur son applications a certains domaines de la physique, A. Blanc-Lapierre (Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, 1953). (I)

23.``An application of information theory: longitudinal measurability bounds in classical and quantum physics," C. D'Antoni and P. Scanzano, Found. Phys. 10, 875-885 (1980). (A)

24.``On relations between information and physics," P. Kovanic, Problems of Control and Info. Th. 13, 383-399 (1984). (I)

25.Information and the Internal Structure of the Universe: an exploration into information physics, T. Stonier (Springer-Verlag, London, 1990). (I)

Two interesting side issues in these relations.

26.``Estimation of distribution laws, and physical laws, by a principle of extremized physical information," B.R. Frieden, Physica A 198, 262-338 (1993). (A)

27.``Mathematical model of information communication in physics teaching process," Sun Liren and Sun Xinping, J. Sys. Sci. Sys. Eng. 2, 363-369 (1993). (E)

Proceedings of three recent conferences provide a broad overview of current research in the interplay between physics and information.

28.Symposium on the Foundations of Modern Physics, edited by P. Lahti and P. Mittelstaedt (World Scientific, Singapore, 1993). (A)

29.Complexity, Entropy and the Physics and Information, edited by W.H. Zurek (Addison-Wesley, Redwood City, California, 1990). (A)

30.Physical Origins of Time Assymetry, edited by J.J. Halliwell, J. Pérez Mercador, and W.H. Zurek (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994). (A)